Database Maintenance Without Breaking The Bank
Database maintenance does not have to be expensive. There are free tools out there that will make your life easier. Of...
2018-02-22 (first published: 2018-02-13)
3,151 reads
Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
Waiting Tasks Reveal Pain Points
Waiting tasks quickly shows you where to look for the bottlenecks. This is only one of the many times that I...
2018-02-14 (first published: 2018-02-06)
2,372 reads
Layman’s Guide to Performance Tuning
Performance tuning is one of those things that is hard to get right when you do not have an established...
2018-02-08 (first published: 2018-01-30)
3,514 reads
My Favorite SQL Prompt Features
SQL Prompt from Redgate Software is one of the tools that I cannot live without. Well, that’s probably an exaggeration...
2018-02-02 (first published: 2018-01-23)
2,811 reads
How To Split Table Partitions Automatically
Table partitions can bring a lot of benefits to the manageability and performance of your SQL Server – that is if...
2018-01-16
886 reads
SQL Operations Studio As Monitoring Dashboard
Microsoft as a company has entered a new phase of innovation under the leadership of their CEO Satya Nadella. In...
2018-01-09
556 reads
My Tech Reading List to Start the Year
My bold learning goals call for adequate preparation and proportionate action. Before plunging into the challenge, I need to get...
2018-01-12 (first published: 2018-01-02)
1,785 reads
My Learning Goals for 2018
A couple of weeks ago, the SQL Server community had their last T-SQL Tuesday of the year – 97th since 2009...
2017-12-26
744 reads
Book Review: High Performance SQL Server
As SQL Server professionals, we sometimes encounter some issues that we haven’t seen before or have seen already but forgot...
2017-10-03
386 reads
Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
Update: Just getting started with Power BI? You can download the Power BI Report File for this KPI Report. Please...
2016-02-16
2,157 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers